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Paul Louis Hertz is an American astrophysicist, and is best known for being the longest-serving [1] Director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA, with a tenure from 2012 to 2022. [ 2 ] Early life and education
Jastrow was the first chairman of NASA’s Lunar Exploration Committee, which established the scientific goals for the exploration of the Moon during the Apollo lunar landings. [ 2 ] Jastrow was a public figure, prolific author and commentator on a range of topics including the space program, astronomy, earth science, and national security issues.
Thomas Hansueli Zurbuchen (born 1968) is a Swiss-American astrophysicist.From October 2016 [2] until the end of 2022, he was the longest continually running Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate at NASA.
Enormous storms on the Sun driven by electromagnetic activity generate space weather that propagates outward across the Solar System and can cause severe disturbances of Earth's upper atmosphere and of the near-Earth space environment, with potential catastrophic impacts on ground- and space-based technological infrastructure.
Pages in category "NASA astrophysicists" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Natalie Batalha;
NASA started an annual competition in 2014 named "Cubes in Space". [264] It is jointly organized by NASA and the global education company I Doodle Learning, with the objective of teaching school students aged 11–18 to design and build scientific experiments to be launched into space on a NASA rocket or balloon. On June 21, 2017, the world's ...
In its June 2022 announcement of plans to form the UAPIST, NASA named astrophysicist David Spergel as the chair of the team, and Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, as the official responsible for orchestrating the study. The team's objective, according to Spergel, was ...
Padi Boyd is an American astrophysicist. She is the head of NASA's Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory and an Associate Director at the Goddard Space Flight Center. [1] [2] She is the project scientist for NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission. [3]